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"""Let them use emacs"": the interaction of simplicity and appropriation,"

Twidale, Michael B.; Jones, M. Cameron

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Title
"""Let them use emacs"": the interaction of simplicity and appropriation,"
Author(s)
  • Twidale, Michael B.
  • Jones, M. Cameron
Issue Date
2005
Keyword(s)
appropriation
Abstract
We look at appropriations in a number of contexts, and find that often they involve very simple ways of coordinating functionality that seems to be at odds with much of the approach of computer systems design that emphasizes power and abstraction. We speculate about how we can extend this simplicity in other ways.
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text
Language
en
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